J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Pre-Saint-Didier: The Monks of St Bernard 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Pre-Saint-Didier: The Monks of St Bernard’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Pre-Saint-Didier: The Monks of St Bernard 1836
D36175
Turner Bequest CCCLXIV 317
Gouache and watercolour on paper, 255 x 279 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCCLXIV–317’ bottom right
Inscribed in blue ink ‘1578’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This study relates to Turner’s 1836 tour of the Alps, which he made in the company of the wealthy Scottish landowner H.A.J. Munro of Novar; for more information, see the Introduction to this section.
This is one of two colour studies the Turner scholar David Hill has identified as showing the monks of St Bernard in Pre-Saint-Didier: for more information and the other study, see the entry for Tate D36267 (Turner Bequest CCCLXIV 399). In the present view, two further figures are shown kneeling before the monks.
Verso:
This sheet has been laid down on card and the verso could not be inspected at the time of cataloguing.

Elizabeth Jacklin
August 2019

How to cite

Elizabeth Jacklin, ‘Pre-Saint-Didier: The Monks of St Bernard 1836 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2019, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2023, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-pre-saint-didier-the-monks-of-st-bernard-r1204631, accessed 12 May 2025.